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I love your comments about process versus “mistakes” (and I also greatly admire your work!). I used to work in watercolour and found it extremely stressful - one bad layer could ruin a painting. I became very tight and tentative. Now after more than 20 years I am picking up my brushes again but am working in large, abstract acrylics. So liberating! I have been inspired by your layering technique and am deliberately layering colours and textures in order to give more depth and interest to my pieces. It is so much fun not quite knowing where the painting is going, and knowing that nothing is a mistake - acrylics are so forgiving. Keep it up, Gwenn, and don’t let those meanies get you down!

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-- Gwenn -- 2013 . 02 . 15 --

Thank you, Dorothy, you are so kind! Watercolors are fun to play with but, as you said, stressful when you have something in particular you’re going for—or at least that’s how they work for my process! I think the medium an artist chooses says a lot about their personality…